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NEW: The timing of the IG report’s release tomorrow has irked some former officials Horowitz interviewed, who told us that the standard review period afforded in an IG probe seemed rushed so it would be released in the middle of impeachment proceedings.
politico.com/news/2019/12/0…
Witnesses were unable to provide written feedback or take notes on the report, they said, because IG didn’t wait for it to be declassified before calling them in. As result, they were asked to sign NDA’s even if portions of report that mentioned them contained no classified info.
Compared with Giuliani, Bill Barr has arguably had far more success in shielding Trump—@dsamuelsohn and I examined the lengths to which Barr has gone to protect the president: politico.com/news/2019/12/0…
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NEW: The IG report makes identity of at least one alleged Steele "sub-source" obvious—raising q's about the motivations for DOJ's declassification decisions.
“I would LOVE a roadmap like this from the Russians or Chinese,” said one former intel official.
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Natasha Bertrand
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Barr on IG saying no evidence political bias affected Russia probe: "All he said is 'people give me an explanation, and I didn't find anything to contradict it'...But he hasn't decided the issue of improper motive."
This process argument was also floated on Fox this morning.
Barr: "Durham is looking at the whole water front. He's looking at the issue of how it got started. He's looking at whether or not the narrative of Trump being involved in the Russian interference actually preceded July...He's also looking at the conduct of the investigation."
Barr also says he suggested Durham look at the "post-election period. And I did that because of some of the stuff that Horowitz has uncovered which to me is inexplicable." Barr also says he has confidence in Chris Wray.
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Natasha Bertrand
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Broke this story 2 years ago next week, still remember the grief I got for it from certain DOJ beat reporters. Flores’ emails, FOIA’d by @CREWcrew, show her instructing reporters not to source the texts to DOJ even though she invited them over for viewing.
Here’s one email showing what @NatSecLisa described. s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citize…
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IG has odd take on Lynch: She didn't discuss anything wrong with Bill Clinton & maybe it was okay to meet him, but was an "error" not to "cut the visit short"

So short meeting that doesn't discuss probe is OK -- but long meeting that doesn't discuss probe is an error?

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